Category Archives: Rare Miscellany

As a British born Canadian living in the USA, I’m not sure I agree with this, in some ways I could not fail to disagree with it less. Siamese twins walk into a bar in Canada and park themselves on a bar stool. One of them says to the bartender, “Don’t mind us; we’re joined

Here are the initial survey questions. Please answer them accurately and honestly. Do you have feelings of inadequacy? Do you suffer from shyness? Do you sometimes wish you were more assertive? If you answered yes to any of these questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist about Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Sauvignon is the safe, natural way

As told by a wife! I had lunch with 2 of my unmarried friends. One is engaged, one is a mistress, and I have been married for 20+ years. We were chatting about our relationships and decided to amaze our men by greeting them at the door wearing a black bra, stiletto heels and a

Originally posted to the blog on April 8th 2009 and edited April 7, 2016 to fix some links that had changed. A woman by the name of Jeanette reminded me of my world in 1969 and this blog post. The year is 1969 and I’m on the DEW Line at DYE-MAIN Cape Dyer on

Revised: 3/31/2016-You’ll see why towards the end! There were a dozen Z3’s and Z4’s en-route to ZFEST 2011 in Spartanburg SC. This particular convoy had folks from Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. ZFEST (www.zfest.com) is an annual event for owners of BMW Z Series cars. Linda and Jim from somewhere in the Great State of

A while back, I was watching an episode of George Gently on Netflix or perhaps Acorn TV and George’s young apprentice or helper who always comes across as, perhaps a little insensitive made reference to a suspect having a little ‘How’s your father?’ on the side. It was obviously a euphemism for sexual intercourse and

For 2 years a man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, He paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise

The Manitoba Herald Goes Viral The Manitoba Herald was a Canadian newspaper that had a short life. It was published only from January to August of 1877. But, “Google ” Manitoba Herald ” and you’ll find an article, supposedly by one Clive Runnels, about the influx of American liberals to Canada, that has gone viral

You will be reading “The Chaos” by Gerard Nolst Trenité, written nearly 100 years ago in 1922, designed to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation. Someone said that if you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the

Perhaps the Ten Commandments are a little out of date. As an atheist, I really don’t give a hoot about having more than one god, as I don’t have one in the first place. The graven image thing and the lord’s name in vain mean little to me. I am a big believer in thou

Stuff I said!

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